阅读提示
第1遍可跟随原声不看稿，进行Shadowing 影子跟读练习；
第2遍可跟随原声看英文稿，练习视译的意群切割技巧；
第3遍可跟随原声看英文稿，标记自己不熟悉的表达方式；
可尝试将中文稿回译为英文，并与所给英文稿进行对照，开展汉译英翻译练习。
一、原文
Today I Begin a New LifeToday I shed my old skin which hath, too long, suffered the bruises of failure and the wounds of mediocrity. Today I am born anew and my birthplace is a vineyard where there is fruit for all. Today I will pluck grapes of wisdom from the tallest and fullest vines in the vineyard, for these were planted by the wisest of my profession who have come before me, generation upon generation. Today I will savor the taste of grapes from these vines and verily. I will swallow the seed of success buried in each and new life will sprout within me. The career I have chosen is laden with opportunity yet it is fraught with heartbreak and despair and the bodies of those who have failed, were they piled one atop another, would cast a shadow down upon all the pyramids of the earth. Yet I will not fail, as the others, for in my hands I now hold the charts which will guide through perilous waters to shores which only yesterday seemed but a dream. As a child I was slave to my impulse;now I am slave to my habits, as are all grown men. I will form good habits and become their slave. And how will I accomplish this difficult feat? Through these scrolls, it will be done, for each scroll contains a principle which will drive a bad habit from my life and replace it with one which will bring me closer to success. And I make a solemn oath to myself that nothing will retard my new life's growth. I will lose not a day from these readings for that day cannot be retrieved nor can I substitute another for it. I must not, I will not, break this habit of daily reading from these scrolls and, in truth, the few moments spent each day on this new habit are but a small price to pay for the happiness and success that will be mine. Today my old skin has become as dust. I will walk tall among men and they will know me not, for today I am a new man, with a new life.
二、译文
今天我舍弃了旧有的躯壳，它长久以来饱受失败的创伤和平庸的折磨。今天我浴火重生，我的诞生地是一片葡萄园，那里果实累累，人人有份。今天，我将从葡萄园里最高大、最丰满的藤蔓上摘下智慧的葡萄，因为这些葡萄是由一代代在我之前的同行中最睿智的人种下的。今天，我将细细品味这些藤蔓上的葡萄，并将成功之种深埋心中，新的生命将在我体内萌发。我所选择的职业充满了机遇，但也充满了心碎和绝望，那些失败者的身躯，如果一个个堆叠起来，将会在地球上所有金字塔上投下阴影。然而，我不会像其他人那样失败，因为我手中握着指引我穿越危险水域到达彼岸的地图，而昨天那里还只是我的梦想。小时候，我受冲动支配；如今，我受习惯支配，就像所有成年人一样。我将养成良好的习惯，并受其支配。那么，我将如何实现这一艰巨的任务呢？通过这些卷轴，我将完成，因为每个卷轴都包含着一个原则，它将驱除我生活中的坏习惯，并用一个能让我更接近成功的习惯取而代之。我郑重地向自己发誓，没有什么能阻碍我新生活的成长。我不会错过这些阅读中的任何一天，因为那一天一去不复返，也无法用另一天来替代。我不能，也不会打破每天阅读这些卷轴的习惯，事实上，每天花在这新习惯上的几分钟，只是为了我将拥有的幸福和成功而付出的微小代价。今天，我的旧躯壳已化为尘土。我将昂首阔步于人群之中，他们不会认出我，因为今天我是一个新人，拥有全新的生活。
三、词汇注释
1.shed[ʃed] :词性: 动词（及物动词或不及物动词）词义: 脱落；舍弃；去掉（毛发、皮肤等）；建立（建筑）
2.bruises[ˈbruːzɪs] :词性: 名词（复数）词义: 淤伤；挫伤
3.mediocrity[ˌmiːdiˈɒkrəti] :词性: 名词词义: 平庸；平凡；普通
4.vineyard['vainjəd] :词性: 名词词义: 葡萄园
5.pluck[plʌk] :词性: 动词词义: 鼓起勇气（做某事）；毅然决然地做
6.savor['seivə] :词性: 动词词义: 品尝；享受…的滋味；具有…的味道
7.verily[ˈverəli] :词性: 副词词义: 真实地；确实地；真正地
8.fraught[frɔːt] :词性: 形容词词义: 载有（货物）的；充满的（尤指不愉快的情感或经历）9.piled one atop another词性: 动词短语词义: 一个叠在另一个上面10.perilous[ˈperələs] :词性: 形容词词义: 危险的；冒险的
11.scrolls[skrəʊls] :词性: 名词（复数）词义: 卷轴；长卷；长卷纸（尤指书写或绘画用的）12.oath[əʊθ] :词性: 名词词义: 誓言；发誓
13.retard[rɪˈtɑːrd] :词性: 动词词义: 阻碍；延迟；使减速
一审一校│徐涛
二审二校│倪娅
三审三校│黄华
